Chap. 0006 AN ACT FOR INCORPORATING CERTAIN PERSONS IN THE TOWN OF GRAN BY FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANAGING A COMMON FIELD IN SAID TOWN.
Whereas John Moody and others oiuners of land herein after described, have petitioned this Court to be incorporated for the purpose of managing the concerns thereof;
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that John Moody, Aaron Moody, Simeon Moody, Levi Taylor, Charles Ferry Junr., Asaph Stebbins, Noah Ferry junr., Eleazer Ayres, Aaron Ayres, Samuel Tol-man, David Abbee, Noah Clark, John Preston Junr., Jabez Preston, Abiather Vinton, Daniel Lathrop, John Bireh-ard, Moses Preston, Josiah Montague, Elijah Smith, David Partrick, James Smith, and the heirs of Thomas Moody and John Stebbins, owners of the following lots of land in the town of Granby (viz.) The five first lots in the first crank division, so called, together with twenty four acres on the north side of, and adjoining to said lots owned by the persons before named, be & they hereby are incorporated for the purpose of managing said lands in a common field, and the proprietors and the owners of the lands aforesaid, are hereby invested with all the powers and priviledges, which the proprietors of lands in general fields are by law invested with.
Be it further Enacted, that each and every of the proprietors aforesaid, their heirs and assigns, shall be at full liberty at any and at all times hereafter, to inclose and improve by themselves, any of their lands lying within the limits of the tract of land before described, in the same manner as if this act had not been made, they maintaining their respective proportions of the general fence around the same. Approved June 15, 1795.